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SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article

Front. Public Health, 05 April 2023
Sec. Environmental health and Exposome
Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1125150

Physio-metabolic and clinical consequences of wearing face masks—Systematic review with meta-analysis and comprehensive evaluation

Kai Kisielinski1*, Oliver Hirsch2, Susanne Wagner3, Barbara Wojtasik4, Stefan Funken5, Bernd Klosterhalfen6, Soumen Kanti Manna7, Andreas Prescher8, Pritam Sukul9* and Andreas Sönnichsen10
  • 1Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Clinical Medicine, Private Practice, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 2Department of Psychology, Fachhochschule für Oekonomie und Management (FOM) University of Applied Sciences, Siegen, Germany
  • 3Veterinary Medicine, Wagner Medical Science Liason (MSL) Management, Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany
  • 4Department of Genetics and Biosystematics, Faculty of Biology, University of Gdańsk, Gdansk, Poland
  • 5Internal Medicine, Clinical Medicine, Private Practice, Moers, Germany
  • 6Institute of Pathology, Dueren Hospital, Dueren, Germany
  • 7Biophysics and Structural Genomics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
  • 8Institute of Molecular and Cellular Anatomy (MOCA), Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany
  • 9Rostock Medical Breath Research Analytics and Technologies (ROMBAT), Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany
  • 10Internal Medicine, Clinical Medicine, Private Practice, Gesundheit für Österreich e.V. (Health for Austria), Vienna, Austria

This article has been retracted. Please follow the link to the full retraction notice for details.

Citation: Kisielinski K, Hirsch O, Wagner S, Wojtasik B, Funken S, Klosterhalfen B, Kanti Manna S, Prescher A, Sukul P and Sönnichsen A (2023) Physio-metabolic and clinical consequences of wearing face masks—Systematic review with meta-analysis and comprehensive evaluation. Front. Public Health 11:1125150. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1125150

Received: 15 December 2022; Accepted: 17 February 2023;
Published: 05 April 2023; Retracted: 25 May 2023.

Edited by:

Francisco Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Reviewed by:

Cecilia Acuti Martellucci, University of Ferrara, Italy
Beny Spira, University of São Paulo, Brazil
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